Sunday, March 20, 2011

Tennis News
At $4.5M Indian Wells Open,
Women Doubles Final
Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt (8) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Meghann Shaughnessy (USA) 60 75

Sania created history with her Russian partner Elena Vesnina winning her first Premier tournament title at Indian Wells ... This title win in this big tournament will give them confidence of winning grand slams in the future ... Sania dedicated her this title to the victim's of Japan's devastating earthquake ... This title win gave Sania 1000 ranking points, which push her doubles ranking to #32 and they won big prize money $118,500 each.


Sania and Elena started well, they were holding their serves easily ... They broke Shaughnessy's serve twice and Mattek-Sands serve once to won first without losing a game in 25 mins ... In second set Americans started serving with Mattek-Sands and she hold comfortably ... Then they broke Sania's serve in 2nd game and 6th game to take 1-5 lead ... Then Sania and Elena started fightback breaking Shaughnessy's serve in 7th game ... Vesnina hold before our pair again broke Mattek-Sands's serve ... Then in 10th game Sania first time hold her serve in second set ... Our pair take crucial break breaking Shaughnessy's serve in 11th game (this was 4th time they broke her serve) and then Vesnina hold comfortably to complete memorable win ... They showed solid nerve to make comeback after 1-5 down in the second set and won 6 games in a row to complete victory.

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